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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Pollia condensata"”.
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Structural Colour in Fruits
… colour in several fruits of the genera Pollia and Viburnum. Previous work showed that the external cells of Pollia condensata fruits have extremely thick cell walls which act as photonic crystals to reflect circular polarised light. Here, the spectral and morphological characteristics of …
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Multi-Functional nano-structures in Nature: from optics to mechanics
… cellulose microfibrils in the cell walls of Pollia condensata fruits shed light on the origin of the chirality assembling in the plant cell walls. By studying the structural colours developed in the close affinity of Pachyrhynchus sarcitis weevils and their first filial generations, I …
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Structural colour from a helicoidal cellulose architecture in the secondary cell wall: Optical properties, cell wall composition, structure and morphology of components, and their assembly and interactions.
Structural colours are produced by constructive interference of light scattered from periodically arranged interfaces within nanostructured materials. A common strategy of plants to achieve structural coloration consists of assembling cellulose microfibrils into helicoidal structures. Examples of …